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February 6th, 2019: Who's On 1st?

Wednesday A 20 percent chance of rain after 4pm. Increasing clouds, with a high near 43. North wind around 7 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.

Wednesday Night Rain, mainly after 7pm. Steady temperature around 42. East wind 6 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New precipitation amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.

Sunrise: 7:01am

Sunset: 5:20pm

Central Park may now be car-free (in theory anyway, if not in practice) though there's evidence it could be getting a new traffic light:

On Tuesday, he caused a Twitter-storm after he wrote “I think I’m likely to die in an extremely Brooklyn way, whether that’s getting hit by a Hasidic schoolbus while riding my bike or a heart attack while arguing with a pseudonymous southern Brooklyn twitter account.”

His tweet caused a backlash of people accusing him of being anti-Semitic.

First of all, everybody knows that buses can't be Hasidic.

Planes, maybe:

But buses, no.

Also, he needn't be worried, at least statistically speaking:

Douglas M. Schneider, the Democratic District Leader/State Committee Member for Brooklyn’s 44th Assembly District blasted Rizzo by saying “Bikers have been killed by charter busses, tractor trailers, distracted drivers, sanitation trucks & car doors, but never a “Hasidic bus.” @nickrizzo’s fear of Hasidic drivers is irrational & bigoted. We cant tolerate bigotry from BK Democratic Party leaders. He should apologize.”

No word yet on heart attack stats from arguing with southern Brooklynites on Twitter.